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New York City residents live in co-ops, lofts and studios, but when the city's people sat down Tuesday to fill out the national census form they found no way to describe their peculiar living arrangements, for the questionnaire does not speak the city's language.
WASHINGTON, April 2 The White House, in an attempt to encourage Iranian authorities to take charge of the American hostages, promised today that the United States would show restraint toward Iran "in our words and actions" as long as progress was being made to resolve the 151-day crisis.
WASHINGTON, April 2 The Federal Reserve Board today imposed a uniform requirement that credit card issuers give card holders 30 days' notice of new repayment terms, but it suspended the stricter notification requirements imposed by a number of states.
Trackmen suddenly ended their strike against the Long Island Rail Road yesterday at the request of a Federal mediator and resumed talks with surprised officials of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2 Despite defeats yesterday in Wisconsin and Kansas, Senator Edward M. Kennedy pushed vigorously into the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania today, seeking an upset victory that his own strategists say he must achieve to keep alive his shrinking hopes of blocking President Carter's renomination.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 1980, covering April 3, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Billy Joel
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
1980Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer[†]
Andrei Nikolayevich Lodis is a Belarusian former professional football player.
1980Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist[†]
Megan Rohrer is an American activist for homeless and LGBTQ+ rights and former Lutheran bishop. Rohrer is the first openly transgender minister ordained in the Lutheran tradition and a successful author and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2012 for "Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect." As an award-winning historian, Rohrer has written the book San Francisco's Transgender District. Following his reception as a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in 2010, he was interviewed by Cosmopolitan about his experiences as an out and queer clergy member, stating "I'm a pastor. I'm a parent. I'm transgender. I am a work in progress." Rohrer served the church as bishop of its Sierra Pacific Synod from 2021 until asked to resign in June 2022. Allegations of racism came forward after Rohrer was directed to terminate "a Latino pastor following a two-year investigation into several accusations against him." On June 23, 2023, Rohrer was removed from the roster of the Sierra Pacific Synod by letter, and rostered ministers were notified by email on June 28. In his 2023 whistleblower lawsuit against the denomination for violations of labor laws and defamation, Rohrer cites discrimination from the ELCA for being transgender.
1980US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.[†]
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an upper body, the U.S. Senate. They both meet in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]